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SESSION: Training & Capacity- Building Scaling Up GHG Accounting Expertise Michael Gillenwater Dean and Executive Director

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SESSION: Training & Capacity-BuildingScaling Up GHG Accounting Expertise

Michael GillenwaterDean and Executive

Director

About us...

“To train and develop a global community of experts with the highest standards of professional practice in measuring, accounting, auditing, and managing

greenhouse gas emissions."

Vision…

“The society of greenhouse gas professionals.”

Powerful force for change in society

Core Programs

1. Membership– building a global community and norm setting

2. Training– building capacity

3. Professional certification– building confidence, infrastructure, and green jobs

4. Standards development portal (forthcoming)– scaling up GHG programs, markets, and technologies

Challenges

• GHG policies are expanding and new ones emerging• GHG emissions becoming a global commodity• Need to avoid “Enron” accounting problems• Need large global pool of well-trained experts to

support GHG metrics• GHG management experts must operate with

common ethical norms and provide high levels of competency

Survey on Green Jobs

• 2009 Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey– More than 700 key GHG

industry professionals, scientists, and organizational leaders across sectors and the globe

http://ghginstitute.org/online-resources/survey/

Current Workforce Needs

Future Workforce Needs

Workforce Needs Survey

Workforce Needs Survey

The role of GHG Protocol?

Capacity building vehicles

Universities

• AWOL– Interdisciplinary – Requires curriculum innovation

• Only tactic: Professor ← chicken and egg

• Not what students want, not where jobs are needed

IGO / NGO / Governments

• Much talk…little backing• Scale: global• Timing: Urgent due to lags• Traditional approach– Paratrooper model– Little evaluation or long-term infrastructure development

Professionalization

↓ Creating a community↓ Education and training

↓ Curriculum↓ Ethical norms/codes↓ Intellectual base

↓ Journal↓ Textbooks

↓ Institutions & infrastructure↓ Certification and peer policing

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SUPPLEMENTAL SLIDES

Training programAlumni

Education and Academic (4%)

International Organizations (5%)

(9%) Government

(10%) Non-profit

(22%) Unspecified

Business (24%)

Consulting (25%)

Latin America/Carribean (5%)

Africa (5%)

(6%) Asia

(15%) Europe

N. America (60%)

Australia/ New Zealand (8%)

Survey sample